Massacre of Ispahan

In 1387, Tamerlan carries out raids in Iran. One of the buildings chief made awkwardness if not the madness to retain the diplomats sent by Tamerlan. This being a crime for the Turco-Mongols, Large the Emir traverses the hundreds of kilometers which separate it from Ispahan, the Métropole of the faulty one.

Rendering

On arrival of the army, the governor of the city comes to give the keys of the city to Tamerlan. The army is disappointed, it does not have there no rape, no plundering, no murder. The population nervous, changeable and is frightened a little. To avoid any problem, Tamerlan makes disarm the city.

Beginning of the hostilities

A tax is fixed, its payment starts, 5 000 Djaghataïdes circulate in the city to perceive the payment and to trade. At this point in time a banal incident occurs, a mercenary crosses a girl and approaches it. She shouts the Help!; a drum starts to beat alarm. And sudden, panic seizes the crowd which street on Djaghataïdes, cuts the throat of them. Those which are close to the doors succeed in fleeing but the others are massacred. Approximately 3 is counted; 000 dead.

The massacre starts

The fury of Tamerlan is terrible. If one can kill 3 000 Timourides, that shouldn't one fear for the future? The following day, it moves towards the city for an operation of reprisals. The city resists; it is too late to subject itself, but as it was disarmed, it succumbs quickly. Tamerlan makes insulate some districts where the population helped Djaghataïdes to flee, certain districts placing of the monks, etc Then, one orders with each soldier to kill without pity until the offices that it set up recorded the number of heads that it fixed.

The blood bath starts, one forgets some to plunder and to violate, one kills. One randomly kills men, women and children. As the trophies arrive, one brings them outside the city to make of them turns, they are the famous cranium minarets of Tamerlan.

Results

Truly atrocious, the approximations vary 100 000 with 200 000 victims. Today one revalues with the fall his morbid results: that is to say 70 000 victims forming approximately 35 Minaret S of 2.000 human craniums each one.

Of course, there remains difficult to completely make the share of the legend and historical reality. However, this massacre took part largely in the reputation of cruelty wild and blind man which is that of Tamerlan.

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